Greene Intermediate News Today

As South Bend looks to consolidate schools, consultants are advising on how the district can get rid of unused buildings in the district.

A longstanding St. Joseph County debate over school district boundaries captured the state’s attention last week after Republican lawmakers booed and shouted down Black legislators’ concerns about discrimination in a bill that would remove students from the racially diverse South Bend Community School Corp. and send them to the smaller, less diverse John Glenn School Corp. House Bill 1367, which advanced to the state Senate last week, would provide a new mechanism for John Glenn to se...

SOUTH BEND — Despite pleas from parents, some school board members, and others to delay the move, the South Bend school board voted Monday to close Hay and Tarkington elementary schools. After more than two and a half hours of informational presentations and questions, the board voted to shutter the schools at the end of this school year as a first step in Superintendent Todd Cummings’ districtwide “rightsizing.” Before the vote, Jeanette McCullough, an at-large board member...

SOUTH BEND — South Bend schools Superintendent Todd Cummings announced plans Monday evening to “rightsize” and “reorganize” the district by closing two school buildings at the end of this school year, creating an “Innovation Network Zone” that would give autonomy to two other schools, and potentially closing one high school in 2022-23. The recommendation calls for closing Hay and Tarkington elementary schools and creating the “Innovation Zone” for Mu...